The Tabbot Foundation has been launched to provide Australia-wide telephone assessment for home abortions, using the abortion drug mifepristone or RU486.
"Home-based medical abortion improves the acceptability of medical abortion by allowing for greater privacy than in-clinic abortion and giving women greater control over the timing of the abortion," the foundation's website says.
The foundation says women are given a referral to have an ultrasound and a pathology test and are assessed over the phone by a doctor and a clinical psychologist.
Medications, including the abortion drug, are then posted to the woman and a nurse follows up after the woman has taken the tablets, the foundation's website says.
"Consultation with the doctor and psychologist will take place after the results of the blood test and ultrasound, usually within two days," the website says.
"Time is important because studies show a better outcome earlier in pregnancy."
